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verb • become tense, nervous, or uneasy • cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | ||||||||
| 27% | 5 | Stiffen, with "up" | ||||||
adjective • in or of a state of physical or nervous tension • pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') • taut or rigid; stretched tight noun • a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time verb • become stretched or tense or taut • increase the tension on • become tense, nervous, or uneasy • cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | ||||||||
| 27% | 6 | Stiffen | ||||||
noun • a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles • a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering verb • stiffen with starch | ||||||||
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5 | Surgeon's technique to permanently stiffen a joint | |
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7 | Used to stiffen clothing in laundry |
